鈥淚 don鈥檛 use bookmarks, I use Google,鈥� says a colleague. And he鈥檚 not alone:
why bother with huge bookmark files that become so bloated that accessing them
can make your computer unstable? The hyper-efficient search system developed at
Stanford University by Google鈥檚 founders, Sergey Brin and Larry Page, has become
so adept at hitting the right pages in an instant that bookmarks (or
鈥渇avourites鈥� if you鈥檙e an Explorer user) become an option rather than a
necessity. Find out how it works at www.google.com/technology/index.html
The sheer power of today鈥檚 search engines calls into question the need for
a magazine column that points you to websites when a keyword will give you a
quick tour of the sites that matter. So this is to be the last of New
快猫短视频鈥檚 Netropolitan columns鈥攂ut we will continue to run our
鈥渟ite of the day鈥� feature at www.newscientist.com/weblinks, where you will
still be able to find reviews of all the best science and technology sites.
On the subject of last words, the Web has plenty to say. We鈥檙e pretty taken
by the unattributed 鈥淗oney, get me a fork, the darn toaster鈥檚 jammed!鈥�, at
www.ai.mit.edu/extra/topten/old/97list49.html. An exhaustive list of last words
can be found, listed alphabetically by their utterer, at
www.geocities.com/Athens/Acropolis/6537.
Asked for some final words of wisdom, hotel chain boss
Conrad Hilton is said to have uttered the immortal words: 鈥淟eave the shower
curtain on the inside of the tub.鈥� Wise words, indeed鈥攁nd something we can
all learn from.
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You can find some fun last words at
www.geocities.com/Heartland/Hills/3456/h_famous_ lastwords.html.
Offerings include: 鈥淚鈥檒l get a world record for this鈥�, 鈥淪o, you鈥檙e a cannibal!鈥�
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get out. Last words are for fools who haven鈥檛 said enough,鈥� he said. Er鈥hat鈥檚
it.
